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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.”

Process Buddhism Scratches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.”

World Wells Deals Careers Buddhism

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“When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.”

Life Is Journey Buddhism Limits Aspect Infinite Impeccable

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“There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.”

Way Suffering Buddhism Enlightenment

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“Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.”

People Earth Suffering Conditions Planets Buddhism Ecstasy Planet Earth

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“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.”

World Pain Suffering Growth Space Pleasure Conditions This World Buddhism Birth Decay Spinning Pain And Pleasure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.”

Looks Bigs Suffering Buddhism Wheels Pointing Big Picture Wheel Of Life

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“Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.”

Suffering Sides Source Buddhism All Things Infinity

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“Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.”

Mind Suffering Universe Attention Buddhism

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“Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.”

Mean Body Suffering Heaven Awareness Buddhism Going To Heaven

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.”

Suffering Fields Buddhism Bears Currents Resemblance

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“We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.”

Ifs Suffering Universe Pleasure Buddhism Add

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.”

Suffering Buddhism Enlightenment Wake Up Lifetime Wheels Waking Again And Again Never Quit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.”

Humans Dream Body Life Is Suffering Human Beings Space Buddhism Birth Conscious Eternity Time And Space Birth And Death Recurring Recurring Dreams

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.”

Wells Mean Doe Suffering Buddhism Liberation Rebirth

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“Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.”

Suffering House Fun Forever Buddhism Walking

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“Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.”

Suffering Perfect Buddhism Pure

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“Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.”

Suffering Buddhism

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“Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.”

States Suffering Creation Buddhism Bliss Ecstasy Perpetual Ups & Downs Transient

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.”

World Suffering Space Buddhism Essence Time And Space

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.”

Ends Suffering Middle Buddhism Enlightenment All Things Perfection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.”

Suffering Left Movement Buddhism Birth Ocean Wave Arise Shore

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.”

Suffering Existence Wind Buddhism Bird Standing Wave Standing Out

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.”

Stills Suffering Universe Loses Buddhism Achievement All Things Center Of The Universe

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.”

World Moments Joy Suffering Buddhism Equal Perfection Stillness Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.”

Mind Light Suffering Buddhism Pure Delighted

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.”

Suffering Our Lives Buddhism Comes And Goes Transient

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.”

World Suffering Energy Events This World Buddhism Enlightenment Gains Connections Enlightened Consistently Boundless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.”

Ifs Way Pain Suffering Enjoy Awareness Buddhism Draws Fortune Slave Endless Pleasant Misfortunes Rise Above

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.”

Humans Pain Joy Suffering Human Beings Forever Conditions Emotional Buddhism Enlightenment Ecstasy Attainment Make You Happy Emotional Pain Brightness

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.”

Suffering Sides Buddhism Perception Enlightenment Sensory Sensory Perception

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.”

Ifs Sometimes Suffering Buddhism

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.”

Mean Pain Suffering Buddhism Birth Enlightenment Illusion Birth And Death Life And Time Illusion Of Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.”

Want Mind States Moving Suffering Subjects Objects Buddhism Thousand Ten State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.”

Mind May Ideas Reality Suffering Buddhism Perfection Ideation Living Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.”

Hands Artist Suffering Middle Buddhism My Friends Screens Runners Cartoon Erase Erasers Road Runner

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“There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.”

World Two Desire Suffering Buddhism Enlightenment Perfection Endless Luminous Two Worlds

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“The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.”

World Suffering Sides Views Greater Buddhism Illusion All Things Clarity Simplify

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.”

Light Earth Lasts Spirit Suffering Comedy Events Buddhism Eternal Tragedy Planes Comes And Goes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.”

Want Suffering Buddhism Perception Enlightenment Rounds Endless

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“Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.”

Way Light Suffering Buddhism Planes Realms Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”

Light Form Desire Suffering Buddhism Pure Unhappiness Aversion

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“Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.”

World Light Suffering Perfect Buddhism Perfection Impression Planes Dimensions Radiant

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“Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.”

Soul Suffering Universe Buddhism Absolutes Finals Collide

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.”

Persons Suffering Perfect Buddhism Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.”

Mind Suffering Buddhism Moved Don Juan Juan Assemblage

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“One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?”

Years Suffering Conditions Buddhism One Day Liberation Immortality Reflecting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.”

Meditation Buddhism Dimensions Knowledge And Power Chakra Meditation Different Dimensions Seven Chakras

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“By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.”

Mind Body Light Consciousness Clear Meditation Buddhism Flow Your Body Rise Above Chakra Chakra Meditation

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.”

Thinking States Eye Moving Attention Focus Meditation Awareness Buddhism Letting Go Warm Meditating Sleepy Chakra Just Let Go Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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